Hindu Medicine c7.146
Hindu Medicine c7.146
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c7.146
He proceeded to Indra’s heavenly abode and the King of Gods revealed to him the Wisdom of Long Life, “condensed in a few words.” The holy seer grasped the “boundless and shoreless, eternal and auspicious” science, which is the last and best resort for the hale and the sick, in the form of three aphorisms containing the knowledge of the causes (hetu) and the symptoms (liṅga) of disease, and of the remedies (auṣadha) thereof.